Connections Section

The Connections section provides commands for defining interactions between components in your assembly.



Contact Detection
Identifies contacting surfaces and creates bonded connections between them.
See Defining Surface-Based Contact or Bonded Contact by Detecting Contact.


Surface-based Contact
Defines structural bonds for user-specified surface pairs.
See Defining Surface-Based Contact or Bonded Contact by Selecting Surfaces.


Show Disconnected Bodies
See Flyout for Finding Disconnected Bodies.

Flyout for Finding Disconnected Bodies
Show Disconnected Bodies
Highlights bodies that do not have any connections.
See Locating Disconnected Bodies.


Show Contacting Bodies
Highlights regions in a model where bodies come into contact but do not intersect or overlap.
See Locating Contacting Bodies.


Show Intersecting Bodies
Highlights regions in a model where bodies intersect or overlap.
See Locating Intersecting Bodies.